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We recently watched "The Holdovers" - excellent movie with good character development & a few surprises. Highly recommend it.
 
I watched the Netflix show, "Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones"
Very interesting documentary about certain areas on our planet where many people live to be over 100 years old (nick named Blue Zones) or pretty close to it. It takes into account their diet, social conditions, frequent forms of exercise and a sense of community. I found it amazing that all honour their elderly and nursing homes or retirement homes are unnecessary. Also dementias and Alzheimer's is non existence among the elderly populations that were explored in Okinawa Japan, a community in Greece and others around the world, and yes there is even a blue zone in the United States that are a group of Seventh Day Adventists, that surprised me.
 
Waterfall said:
I watched the Netflix show, "Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones"
Very interesting documentary about certain areas on our planet where many people live to be over 100 years old (nick named Blue Zones) or pretty close to it. It takes into account their diet, social conditions, frequent forms of exercise and a sense of community. I found it amazing that all honour their elderly and nursing homes or retirement homes are unnecessary. Also dementias and Alzheimer's is non existence among the elderly populations that were explored in Okinawa Japan, a community in Greece and others around the world, and yes there is even a blue zone in the United States that are a group of Seventh Day Adventists, that surprised me.
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Interesting. I knew about some of those, but not about the Adventists. The honouring their elderly part is interesting. We were talking about that with my daughter-in-law's folks because Pakistan and China are two countries that still try to keep grandparents close by and part of child rearing and both are surprised by the West's habit of sticking people in "homes".
 
Mendalla said:
Interesting. I knew about some of those, but not about the Adventists. The honouring their elderly part is interesting. We were talking about that with my daughter-in-law's folks because Pakistan and China are two countries that still try to keep grandparents close by and part of child rearing and both are surprised by the West's habit of sticking people in "homes".
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I think this show really brings a different understanding on how we are totally disrespecting our aging parents in many of our societies by pushing them into institutions. In these societies they are seen as sources of wisdom with respect.
I've actually noticed that immigrants coming here from India, Syria, Gaza, and other places desperately want their elderly parents to be allowed to come too....our north American and some European cultures have leaned towards not caring for their parents in their homes and choose a care facility instead. The elderly are inconvenient.
 
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Waterfall said:
Thanks, I will keep an eye out for it.
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It is available for rent on Youtube but the price is a bit ridiculous for them. $24.99 and I think you have 30 days to start watching and then 3 days or something like that to finish once you start. Usually they are more like $10 or less. Which is likely because it is new and maybe not on any subscription streamers yet (i.e. no competition). My wife and I have been a bit meh on Alexander Payne movies in the past so not sure we would bother.
 
Mendalla said:
It is available for rent on Youtube but the price is a bit ridiculous for them. $24.99 and I think you have 30 days to start watching and then 3 days or something like that to finish once you start. Usually they are more like $10 or less. Which is likely because it is new and maybe not on any subscription streamers yet (i.e. no competition). My wife and I have been a bit meh on Alexander Payne movies in the past so not sure we would bother.
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That's a bit steep...I will wait and see if it might drop off in price.
 
Door in the Woods

free on Tubi

Neat lil thriller genre piece aboot loving parents and their neuroatypical kid trying to make do in their new town when they come across a door

No gore
No explicit sex
Just neat genre thriller

Also can watch it on youtube :3
 
Delightful Life said:
Door in the Woods

free on Tubi

Neat lil thriller genre piece aboot loving parents and their neuroatypical kid trying to make do in their new town when they come across a door

No gore
No explicit sex
Just neat genre thriller

Also can watch it on youtube :3
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Is genre an essence of something unknown, blown as a wisp on the wind? Sparks ... drifting from the torch as carried ... it is like a closed dore opening ... a vessel called Dora? It may lead to baffling vapors --- Freud! Could be soulful experience of displaced worries for a short period! Some folk have lives like this ... and then something hits them!
 
paradox3 said:
Do you recommend it?
We are watching Season 6 of The Crown. Just finished Rookie Blue which was good but not great.
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Hmm, if you don'tind off colour stuff.
It's a comedy. A bit like Shameless is a comedy.
Checks your own values and presumptions around alcoholism, homelessness, power
 
We finished Vikings. Tried a few unmemorable movies and are now watching Grey's Anatomy. I frequently laugh at the obvious medical errors. Hubby enjoys the ludicrous gore.
 
Netflix suggested shows are now a riot. Big guy has an account on top of mine, because it was, in a variety of ways, a better deal. But they seem to sort of mesh our "because you watched" stuff to some fairly hilarious results where Rookie Blue meets Outlander.
 
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